Forty years ago the disease was first defined; today it can be prevented. Its defeat is one of the most rapid and dramatic achievements of twentieth century medicine-and one of its most bitterly competitive. In Rh: The Intimate history of a Disease and Its Conquest, David R. Zinimerman tells the story from behind the scene` : He brings us into the research laboratories, conference rooms, and private conversations that proved to be instrumental in the conquest of Rh disease. He elucidates the scientific discoveries so the reader with no prior knowledge can follow, understand. and enjoy the moment of scientific triumph and the aftermath of personal conflict and defeat that together make up the Rh saga.This is the drama of creativity as it was experienced-and lived-by young research workers making medical progress. Most striking of all has been tile drama of ideas: the way that each individual scientist achieved the understanding that led him to take a great step forward.How important is the bestowing of proper credit to the scientist? The author says. "The commonwealth depends on the accumulation of praiseworthy medical research and if those who perform it do not receive appropriate recognition and praise, the best men of a generation will turn to other endeavors." On the basis of his investigation, the author resolves the hotly contested question of -who deserves credit for the development of the Rh vaccine.Rh was-and is - a good story. It is also the most accurate, the most informative, and most "inside" account of creative scientists at work since The Double Helix.

Rh: The Intimate History of a Disease and Its Conquest

Zimmerman, David R.

Macmillan Publishing Co.Inc

Based on an FDA-sponsored review, this guide lists more than one thousand ingredients and 1,500 brand-name products with evaluations as to safety and effectiveness, arranged in sections according to symptoms, and includes additional medical information

The Essential Guide to Nonprescription Drugs

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Harpercollins

This book presents a low-fat, high-fiber diet that can significantly reduce women's chances of developing breast cancer

The Doctors' Anti-Breast Cancer Diet: How the Right Foods Can Reduce Your Risk of Breast Cancer

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Gorbach, Sherwood

Woods, Margo N.

Kressy, Jean

Special Diet

Simon&Schuster

To save a bird in peril

Coward, McCann, Geoghegan

Americans spend over $12 billion a year on over-the-counter treatments, and $3 billion a year on vitamins and minerals. This new and completely revised reference takes the guesswork out of choosing safe and effective nonprescription treatments. "An invaluable reference source".--Library Journal.

Zimmerman's Complete Guide to Nonprescription Drugs

Medical Books

Pharmacology

Gale/Cengage Learning

Lists more than a thousand ingredients and brand-name products with evaluations as to safety and effectiveness, arranged in sections according to symptoms, and includes additional medical information

Visible Ink Pr

SANKOFA? How Racism and Sexism Skewed New York’s Epochal Black Research Project is an investigative report on an important - and costly - anthropological study that failed. The research was on bones dug up from a black slave cemetery in New York City. The city's current black population - the “Descendant Community” - was promised key information about their ancestors and antecedents. But little was provided. This failure, carefully described here, casts light on the relationship between the researchers who do the work and the federal government, which pays for it - with taxpayers' dollars. The Fed failed to monitor this project closely until it slipped its traces. The scientists and the government hid the problems from the public. Only later was Author David Zimmerman able to pursue the matter through documents and interviews with some of the participating scientists. The Project Leader, Anthropologist Michael L. Blakey, PhD, and his close associates refused Zimmerman's interview requests. Others scientists were forthcoming. This is a sad but dramatic account, written for all readers, of science gone wrong. It is a cautionary tale designed to enlighten readers and, it is hoped, discourage other such debacles..

Sankofa?: How Racism and Sexism Skewed New York's Epochal Black Research Project

Politics & Social Sciences

Mitchell, Michelle J

Sociology

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Brilliant and utterly exhilerating, this wry, revealing, and insightful journey into his own life once again reveals how David Zimmerman has been filling the footsteps of the legendary independent journalist Izzy Stone, author of I.F. Stone's Weekly. Zimmerman, an exceptional reporter and writer, has spent much of his seventy-year career exposing industry falsehoods, in politics and Big Science, in the New York Times and other major media, and has published five book-length works of nonfiction. The Times has described him as "an able and extraordinarily industrious science writer." In this memoir, Zimmerman travels a long road--from a citified childhood in Chicago to a career as a wildlife investigative reporter, and from the deepest intimacies of private life to the broad panoramas of his chosen field. The disappearance of a sleeptime toy, a fantasy animal, and his lifetime effort to reclaim it, shape this worldwide odyssey. You will meet Santhi in these pages, and you will come to see how fantasy and reality have richly combined to form the author's creative lifetime. It's a trip well worth taking.

The Making of a Journalist: Santhi & I: A Memoir

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Full Court Press

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